Improvement in photographic albums



point where the Vleaves are united to their y thatl depend upon for the tlexibilityof the -suitable material inserted and disposed in the manner above desoribedbetween .theelothleaf, which mustneeessarily be the ease it' single leaves are stitched together,'the joint will be stiff' and the attachment will he very between the edges of the strips of filling e e, (siown'in Fig. 2,) for thepurpose ot' makingthis point, which is`the` middle of the two united leaves, the thinnest, so that it may be stitched through readily, and also so that a flexible joint will be formed at this point to allow the book when made to open Tully. There will be lnore or less flexibility at the again, leaving long stitoheson the'iuside of attaching each pair of leaves together` in the flexible stiip; but 'it is not this joint alone a very strong and exible backing.- Y y Having thus described my invention, I`

baeking. It is the flexible baekin g' itself which' elaim` allows the .book to open freely and, full y, which frail; but by my mode the stitches will he4 v passed through the ilegible backing from the?` inside ot theleat outward and then back'V the flexible joint of each pair of lleavesLthus usual manner of stitching books and makingf' baekingfis made up o f strips of paper-or otherl 1). Uniting the ear'dereoeiving lea-ves to;V

uniting strips b b. f filling, substantially as described.`V

I alnfaware that single. leaves-for -eontaining photograph picture 'cards have been united,`

so as to forma book by stitching through the back ofl each leaf separately;andfIain also aware that it is'not new to makeup the backof' a photographalbum of pieces ot' eloth and filling-strips; butin neither of these instances have the-leaves been united together in pairs by means of strips .of eloth- 11a-ving between-I them the .illingstrips disposed sov that the leaves may be praetieably stitched together in the usnalnianner ot' securing leaves iu abook.

. The advantagesof my mode over others are s very great, for it will -be seen .that where leaves In preseneeor- Constructinga photograp'hlbum Dg, series ot' pairs of leaves sti-tohedqtogenliergu vstantially as described.` Y '-y i Witness my hand Vin the matter-ofvmy a,

plieation fora patent foniumro verneutzi'nhe'y tographie albums. i

l VJoifinjug Mers are stitched together singly and .the stitches (JHASE. FROST, are transversely across the'back edges of veach THOMAS FoRnEn.

gether in pairsbymeans of flexiblestripsotfv` cloth or "other suitable material inelosiiigggag` 2. So disposing the illing-stripseef Within( the flexibleeonnecting-strips.b b,' thatfa spi'ieo` Will be formed for the reception of thegbend of the lilling-stri p f when 'the leavesare.; stitched together, substantially 'as described* 

